Assessing the comfort in use of a flipboard mobile news and magazine app

Abstract

A perceived usability assessment was conducted on Flipboard mobile application, a mobile news magazine application with 13 students from the Universiti Urara Malaysia to assess the comfort in use of the app. In this study, the researchers evaluated the users’ reactions to the mobile application using a post-test survey carried out after the study participants had finished performing some tasks on the Flipboard mobile app in the testing environments. The results showed that most of the study participants were satisfied about the app’s screen (visibility), app terminologies, and learnability and had a general impression that the app was aesthetically pleasing, impressive and comfortable in use. The summary of these findings was that the Flipboard mobile app was perceived usable and comfortable to use by majority of the study participants.